The Osceola times., 1887-03-26

wM. J. HUTCHINSON, an ex-New York
broker. is In prison there for conversion
Of stocks TO his own use which had been
intrusted 10 him.
Ok the 18th, Benjamin Spandauer, who
was mainly instrumental in securing the
conviction Of Mrs. Surratt of completely
in the assassination Of Abraham Lincoln,
was Jailed at Baltimore, Nd, as pur-
chaser of perjury.
OK the nth Geneva Stoner, aged seven
teen years, committed suicide at Lancas-
ter, Pa, by taking dose Of rat poi son.
She gave as reason for the act that her
mother would not allow her TO go out at
night.
WALTER r. LAwroy, q new York mer-
chant, has run away, after defrauding va
rious people To the amount altogether OF
about 81 ,0O),0)0 His effects have been at
tached.
Az appalling hotel horror occu rred on
the 18th at Buffalo, ~ Y, In the burning
OF the new Richmond House. A number
Of human lives were lost and great
many people were injured
A MAN who, from papers found in his
pocket, was undoubtedly Patrick ii.
Dolan, clerk, fell in front OF an engine
at the Ninth street New Yorl) station OF
the Third Avenue Elevated road, on the
18th, and was instantly killed.
TuE second trial Of Michael Kaelin. at
Louisville, Ky, for the murder Of his wife
on August Z, 1885, resulted on the 18th In
his being sentenced TO the penitentiary for
life. Upon his firsttri he was sentenced
TO hang.
The bodies OF two unknown tramps
were discovered IN the hot air fiue of the
Isabella furnace at Pittsburgh on the
18th. The men had evidently crawled
into the fue or tunnel TO csc ape from the
cold last night, and had been suffocated
by the coke gas while sleeping. There
was nothing about them which would
furnish clcw TO their Identity.
A SAD death by suicide occurred in
Grant township, Adams County, four
miles north Of Lenox, Ia, on the 18th.
George Douglass, a well-known farmer,
forty seven years Of age, shot and killed
himself with revolver near his house,
No cause can be assigned, unless it be
long continued ill-health. He leaves a
wife and u large family.
AT six o'clock on the morning of the
18th the dstilery OF Dorsel e. Wulftang,
in Covington, KY, was burned to the
ground. Loss, $4,000. One man, Ben
Rucer, was fatally injured.
AT one o'clock on the morning OF the
18th John Doty was crossing the Polk
street viaduct in Chicago, when he was
assaulted by two men, who struck him on
the head with club, knocking him down.
After rifiing his pockets the thugs fed
! leaving no clew to their identity. Doty
was conveyed to the County Hospital,
where 1t was found that his skull was
| fractured.
| Tue British ship Eliza A. Kenney, Cap
tain Lawrence, from Philadelphia, via New
York for Bremen, has been abandoned a
sea in sinking condition. The crew were
saved
OK the 10Th DR.. Randall, quack ply
sican OF rather unsavory reputation, wa
shot and instantly killed in the court
room at Hastings, Neb,, by an unknown
man, while undergoing preliminary ex
animation on a charge Of criminal assault
on girl eleven years OF age.
| CONSIDERABLE uncertainty exists as I,
b actual number Of lives lost in the re
cent Buffalo holocaust 1t js known tina
nine are dead and about forty injured, anC
1t is feared that the clearing away Of tn,
debris will reveal the remains Of severa
more victims.
MAJOR ID. N. Bush, Paymaster u. :. A..
Is reported to have been robbed of s7,5l
at Antelope Springs, Wy. T., by cowboy
named Charles Parker, who escaped OF
horseback with his booty under fire Of ,h'
Major and his escort.
OK the l9;h, Second Lieutenant J. II. j
Wilcox, OF the Seventh cavalry, was az
rested in st. Louis on charge oil bein
absent without leave. and OF duplicating
his pay accounts. He has been sent {,
Fort Smelling, Mimi, for trial.
OK the 18th dastardly attempt wa
made by an incendary in Buffalo, N, Y.
to set fire TO a tenement occupied by abou
dozen families. The fire, started in th
basement, in a coal bin, was discovered b.
some children, who extinguished 1t,
GREAT preparations are being made a
Washington for the National drill, whic
takes place there from May % to the 30th
The police of Berlin state that DeSaien
the murderer of Iieutenant-Colonel Su
deiken, was the ringleader Of the rccen
attempt to kill the Car.
Ok the Goth, by gunpOwdcr explosion
In the house Of man named Foster. l
the Indian Territory, two of his childrc
were killed and himself and wife were s,
riously hurt.
MISCELLANEOUS.